CNN: 'Very Plausible' Menendez Scandal 'Hoax'

WOLF BLITZER, CNN HOST: You couldn’t get this tipster to meet you in person. Others who have investigated him couldn’t even get him on the phone. Is it possible that this is just one big hoax? There is no real Peter Williams?

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DREW GRIFFIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it seems very plausible there is no Peter Williams. The question is, Wolf is who is behind it, and what are the actual facts behind the allegations, specifically the prostitution allegations that person has made? The dominican republic, the district attorney there office said it’s going to investigate, but we checked again today. There doesn’t seem to be any hot investigation going on to find it, but I will point out Pete Williams, Harrison Pete Williams, as you’ll recall, Wolf, involved in a scandal from the Senate, another Senator from New Jersey. So, this could all be just be baiting the press to try to get to us investigate these cases.